How Did You Become a Dipo?

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Dipo: Getting into milipedes was completely random. I had the opportunity to go to this milipede and centipede identification workshop at a little biological station when i was still an undergrad. And so id just come o, snowballed from there. There's only been about half a dozen people working on millipeds and centipedes in North America. So w we need to make them care. They're so coolThere are so many beautiful ones too. You can probably find a great butterfly guide that tells you all the stuff you need to know for your area. That just doesn't exist for millipetan sentmaay, no one cares enough about them

How many legs? Why so many legs? What's a millipede versus a centipede? And again WHY SO MANY LEGS. We have just the guy for that: Diplopodologist Dr. Derek Hennen. As a person who’s spent over a decade sorting through leaf litter and naming scores of new species, Derek is truly a champion for the multi-limbed little critters. If you liked what Casey Clapp brought to Dendrology, get ready to appreciate millipedes like you never thought you would. Also: mythology gossip, world records, Taylor Swift fandom, and sniffing bugs.

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A donation was made to Lower Muskingum Conservancy

Millipedes of Ohio Field Guide PDF

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